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other facilities.
“Before the governor and legislators mortgage the future of Wisconsin taxpayers, possibly for decades,
they should think very carefully about the long-term needs of the state rather than their own re-election,” Hansen said.
A group of four Republican lawmakers from northeast Wisconsin pushed back against Hansen’s claims.
Rep. David Steffen, of Green Bay, said there will be countless economic bene ts across the state. Walker’s administration has estimated that there will be 22,000 other new jobs in construction and other associ- ated elds thanks to the project.
“To think that someone would actively cheer against this type of economic growth is insane,” Steffen said. ___
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McCain, expected to save health bill, became the executioner By ERICA WERNER, AP Congressional Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) — John McCain seemed poised to be the savior of the GOP health bill when he returned to the Capitol despite a brain cancer diagnosis.
He turned out to be the executioner.
The longtime Arizona senator stunned pretty much everyone Friday by turning on his party and his presi- dent and joining two other GOP sena- tors in voting “no” on the Republicans’ nal effort to repeal “Obamacare.”
That killed the bill. And it also dealt what looks like a death blow to the Republican Party’s years of promises to get rid of Barack Obama’s health law, pledges that helped the GOP win control of the House, the Senate and the White House.
Itwasamomentburningwithdra- ma, irony and contradictions, playing out live on a tense Senate oor.
Sen. John McCain, R-Az., front left, is pursued by report- ersaftercastinga‘no’voteonaameasuretorepealparts of former President Barack Obama’s health care law, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Eightyyearsoldandinthetwilight
of a remarkable career, McCain lived
up to his reputation as a maverick. When he walked into the well of the Senate around 1:30 a.m. and gave a thumbs-down to the legislation, there were audible gasps. Democrats brie y broke into cheers, which Minority Leader Chuck Schumer quickly waved his arm to quiet.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stood stone-faced, his arms crossed. McCain had just saved the sig- nature legislative achievement of the man who beat him for the presidency in 2008, a law the senator himself had vigorously campaigned against while seeking a sixth Senate term last year.
Friday afternoon, McCain’s of ce announced he was returning to Arizona to begin radiation and chemo- therapy treatments for his brain tumor.